This message was circulated on the coalitionclimat21 e-mail list.
I am not speaking as someone who participated in the debates of coalitionclimat21 activists in Paris. I was a participant in two workshops, both in collaboration with Josefina Fraile and Skyguards, on the subject of climate manipulation. But given that Tadzio Mueller in Berlin has drawn the coalitionclimat21 list’s attention to the existence of disagreements between the coalition’s activists, I wrote to him and he suggested I send my comments “to the whole list”. I did this, not really believing that they would be distributed, but perhaps hoping that they might be perceived as helpful by some in overcoming disagreements. They were not, initially, distributed.
What I wrote was this: “The real work does not have to be focused on ‘climate change’. An alternative focus can be put forward, such as opposition to TTIP/TPP and opposition to climate manipulation. What about the idea of supporting the April 23rd Global March and making opposition to climate manipulation rather than to “climate change” the centre of attention?? http://enouranois.eu/?p=1184 At least then we could be spared the disagreements about whether COP21 was a historic step forward or “a depressing attempt to kick the can down the road,” to quote Tadzio Mueller.
The following is the gist of what I have to say, or ask: Could these disagreements between climate activists have anything to do with the way that the climate change debate has been instrumentalized to strengthen the position of the lobbies pushing nuclear energy, genetically modified foodstuffs, emissions trading, geoengineering etc. etc. etc.?
I have been discussing these post-COP21 developments with other activists against climate manipulation. Many of them are climate change “sceptics”, and I received this feedback from a certain “NP”. “Policy is being passed in many countries to view Climate Change deniers as potential terrorists!!! It’s becoming a thought crime now. How dare we disconnect from that Mass Media indoctrination machine & think for ourselves!!! Yes climate is changing because these evil, secret, corporate groups are messing with our climate chemically.”
This was my reply: “The desideratum is to avoid being confused with conventional climate change deniers, most of whom do not acknowledge the global reality of the spraying. We should make it clear that we reject the climate debate as a whole, both sides of it. The sceptics are the more Machiavellian and evil side. Solar radiation management as an ‘answer to climate change’ is the brainchild of Freeman Dyson and later Edward Teller, both of them nuclear weapons protagonists and climate change sceptics. Climate manipulation dates back to the Eisenhower era, decades before the passage (after the US defeat in Vietnam) of the ENMOD legislation (three cheers for the unsung hero Senator Pell) the outlawing of climate manipulation “for aggressive purposes” and the subsequent clandestination of what had previously been done openly, followed by establishment of the IPCC and discovery of “climate change”.
The point is this: it has been possible to instrumentalize the climate movement’s concerns because of the way that the central problem has been projected as “climate change”. One could not advocate nuclear energy as a solution to climate manipulation, but it has been, and is being, presented as a solution to climate change. (The slogan “don’t nuke the climate” is a plaintive appeal launched on the territory of “the other side”, destined to remain as unheeded as were the anti-nuclear-weapons appeals of the 80s.) One could not advocate genetic modification as a solution to climate manipulation, but it has been, and is being, presented as a way to help “deal with climate change”. One could not advocate emissions trading as a way to deal with climate manipulation, but it has been, and is being, presented as a way to deal with climate change. One could not advocate geoengineering as a way to deal with climate manipulation, because it IS climate manipulation, but it is being recommended, and implemented, as a “way to deal with climate change”.
The Enouranois proposal that coalitionclimat21 activists should participate in the April 23rd Global March against geoengineering and climate manipulation is a serious proposal. Skyguards would like the word “chemtrails” not to be in title for the march and this is a request we endorse.
W. Hall, for http://enouranois.eu